1 And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers. 25 And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country, 26 And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land: 27 And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits: 28 But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac. 29 Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.30 In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it. 31 But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we. 32 And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature. 33 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

1 Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 27 How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. 28 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you. 29 a In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie.34 According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge: 35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

Psalm: Psalms 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23

6 We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. 7 ab Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies:13 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels. 14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.21 They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, 22 Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea. 23 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Gospel: Matthew 15: 21-28

21 And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil. 23 Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: 24 And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel. 25 But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.26 Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. 27 But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters. 28 Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.